The Midnight Library - Pre-Reading Discussion

[John]

This area is for any discussion about the December 2023 (option #2) book selection, The Midnight Library before you begin reading it.

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Between life and death there is a library, and within that library, the shelves go on forever. Every book provides a chance to try another life you could have lived. To see how things would be if you had made other choices . . . Would you have done anything different, if you had the chance to undo your regrets? A novel about all the choices that go into a life well lived.

Somewhere out beyond the edge of the universe there is a library that contains an infinite number of books, each one the story of another reality. One tells the story of your life as it is, along with another book for the other life you could have lived if you had made a different choice at any point in your life. While we all wonder how our lives might have been, what if you had the chance to go to the library and see for yourself? Would any of these other lives truly be better?

Nora Seed finds herself faced with this decision. Faced with the possibility of changing her life for a new one, following a different career, undoing old breakups, realizing her dreams of becoming a glaciologist; she must search within herself as she travels through the Midnight Library to decide what is truly fulfilling in life, and what makes it worth living in the first place.

[Peacejanz]

Hope I get this chance - have not started the book yet, but your info encourages me. Maybe there is another chance for all of us? peace, janz

[Kelvin]

I'll tell you when it got down to the voting stage there was 5 books the I found really enticing. I bought three right away The Midnight Library was one of the those. The premise seems intriguing to me.

[Lady J.]

I'm next in line for a hold for this book on the Hoopla app! Hopefully I get it soon. Sounds really good!

[John]

Got a copy last night---print copy for me this time around!

[Dawn]

I am currently reading midnight library and I like it so far. I hope I can finish it before the end of the month. I am in two other book clubs and am trying to keep up with all the reading.